Performing Shakespeare in Japan / edited by Minami Ryuta, Ian Carruthers, John Gillies.

Performing Shakespeare in Japan / edited by Minami Ryuta, Ian Carruthers, John Gillies.

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

xiii, 259 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm

Based on presentations made at a seminar held during the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress held in Los Angeles in April 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What do we mean by 'Japanese' Shakespeare? / Anzai Tetsuo
Japan as 'half-civilized' : an early Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice and Japan's construction of its national image in the late nineteenth century / Yoshihara Yukari
Shakespeare in Kabuki / James R. Brandon
Osanai Kaoru's version of Romeo and Juliet, 1904 / Matsumoto Shinko
Some Noh adaptations of Shakespeare in English and Japanese / Ueda Munakata Kuniyoshi
The braggart samurai : a Kyogen adaptation of Shakespeare's The merry wives of Windsor / Michael Shapiro
Weaving the spider's web : interpretation of character in Kurosawa Akira's Throne of blood (Kumonosu-jô) / Paula von Loewenfeldt
Innovation and continuity : two decades of Deguchi Norio's Shakespeare Theatre Company / Suematsu Michiko
Tragedy with laughter : Suzuki Tadashi's The tale of Lear / Takahashi Yasunari
The chronicle of Macbeth : Suzuki method acting in Australia, 1992 / Ian Carruthers
The rose and the bamboo : Noda Hideki's Sandaime Richâdo / Suzuki Masae
Shakespeare reinvented on the contemporary Japanese stage / Minami Ryuta
Juliet's girlfriends : the Takarazuka Revue Company and the Shôjo culture / Ohtani Tomoko
Directing 'Japanese Shakespeare' locally and universally : an interview with Gerard Murphy / Ted Motohashi.

Great Britain -- England -- Cambridge.

PR3109.J36 P47 2001